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NIAGARA MOHAWK POW. v. TONAWANDA BAND OF SENECA IND.

No. 1300, Docket 95-9014.

94 F.3d 747 (1996)

NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORPORATION, Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant/Appellant, v. TONAWANDA BAND OF SENECA INDIANS, Bernard Parker, Darwin Hill, Kervin Jonathan, James C. Logan, Emerson Webster, Darren Jimerson, Harley Gordon, Roy Poodry, and Frank Abrams, Defendants-Appellees, Stonehorse Lone Goeman, Susan LaFromboise, David C. Peters, Peter L. Poodry, and John A. Redeye, Defendants/Counter-Claimants/Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark R. McNamara, Buffalo, New York (Samuel J. Burruano, Jr., Hiscock & Barclay), for plaintiff/counter-defendant/appellant Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation.

Harold M. Halpern, Buffalo, New York (Borins, Halpern, Stromberg & Paskowitz), for defendants-appellees Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians, Bernard Parker, Darwin Hill, Kervin Jonathan, James Logan, Emerson Webster, Darren Jimerson, Harley Gordon, and Frank Abrams.

Joseph E. Zdarsky, Buffalo, New York (Gerald T. Walsh, Zdarsky, Sawicki & Agostinelli, of counsel), for defendants/counter-claimants/appellees Stonehorse Lone Goeman, Susan LaFromboise, David C. Peters, Peter L. Poodry, and John A. Redeye.

Before: FEINBERG, CABRANES, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Niagara Mohawk Power Company ("Niagara Mohawk"), a public utility corporation organized under New York law, filed this action for declaratory relief on March 3, 1993. The plaintiff is the successor to the rights and obligations of the Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Company ("Niagara Lockport") under an April 27, 1936, franchise agreement with the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians ("Tonawanda Band"), a federally...

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